Okay, so this is entirely new to me. Sparrow is was an email client for Mac OS X and iOS (and Windows), which brought a decent Gmail experience to these platforms - as opposed to Apple's own not-so-good Gmail support and Google's Gmail iOS application which, well, is just a webpage. Google has now acquired Sparrow, and basically all hell has broken loose, to the point of Rian van der Merwe writing that 'we' lost "faith in a philosophy that we thought was a sustainable way to ensure a healthy future for independent software development, where most innovation happens".

because one trial represents the all the customers that provide closed source software. Logic Fail.

Considering you last argument Logic Fail is a bit rich. However, I link an article from The European Committee for Interoperable Systems www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf "Microsoft
A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
I think it covers what Nth Man is saying and you may find it interesting - I don't think logic fail is an appropriate response.

Well then they are fools

Please try to be less offensive no doubt the users of GIMP have good reasons to use the this well considered software, reasons that you may not understand.

There is a lot of good software for Windows that can be bought that doesn't include malware or any other bollox.

Absolutely true and there is an awful lot of scumware too and this doesn't seem to affect Opensource s much as some proprietary operating systems.